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Rockers (1972) - Drunk Monk - 07-13-2022
This is leaving Criterion so I figured I’d revisit it. Forgot what a gem this is.
(03-09-2022, 12:21 AM)cranefly Wrote: Yeah, that I&I stuff gets really weird. The patois gets most trippy and dense in Rockers -- featuring the laid-back and deceptively appealing Horsemouth.
The patois is super thick and the subtitles, while they omit a lot, are needed.
Amazing cast of roots rock reggae performers. Allegedly this began as a documentary and somewhere in the process, a story emerged. Ras gets bike. Ras loses bike. Ras recovers bike and exacts a Robin Hoodesque revenge. The story meanders - it’s not the focus. The focus is that amazing soundtrack and the postcardesque capture of 70s Jamaica. The clothes, the shanty town architecture of yard, the skanking, the kootchie & ganja, and the music. That music. It’s more like a roots reggae album that you watch. This catches the sound that I so love.
Burning spear’s a capella take on JAH no dead is such a treasure.
I didn’t notice before (maybe I did and just forgot) but there’s a scene where Horsemouth appears to be packing some white nunchuks.
This remains one of my fav reggae films.